National Republican., 1887-09-05
WOMAN'S MISSION ON EARTH
REV. DIR. TALMAGE TALKS OF THEM
AND THEIR sUPERJATIvE RIGHTS.
It is Woman who Must Care for the
Sick, Comfort the Poor, Aid In Time
OF Dire Disaster. and Perform All
the Noble Charities of the World.

perial character of q true Christian woman.
She is not a slave, not hireling, not subor-
dnate, but queen; and in my text Solomon
sees sixty ofthese helping to make up the
showed you that crown and courtly attend
ants and imperial wardrobe were
no, no, necessary ,SS, TO- make "a queen;
life w give ccTonaon to nS any womsn assa
] showed you at some length that woman's
position was higher In the world than mans,
and that although she had often been denied
the right Of suffrage, she always did vote and
always would vote by her influence, and that
her chief desire ought to be that she should
have grace rightly, to rule, In the dominion
grafton of some of her rights, and this morning
resume the subject.
In the first place. woman has the special and
the superlative right-not again going back to
what have already saidewoman has the
special and superlative right of blessing and
comforting the sick.
What land, what street, what house has not
felt the smitings of disease Tens of thousands
Of sick beds2 What shall we do with them
Shall man, with his rough hand aud clumsy
foot, go stumbling around the sick room trying
the pains Of the tossing patient. The young
nan at college may scoff ut the idea of being
under maternal influences; but, at the first
blast Of % The typhoid fever on his cheek, he
says :,"Where is motherT'
Sir Walter Scott wrote partly In satire and
partly In compliment when he said:
70 woman, In our hours OF ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
ministering angel thou"
mink the most pathetic passage in all the
Bible is the description of the lad who went
out to the harvest field of shunem and got
MISUNDERSTANDING his hands on his temples
and crying out: "0h, my head my headp' and
they said: Garry him to his mother" Aud
asm 'hs TeSo5d Ss% s. HE fst on her knees TN
be Ill away from home in n strange hotel once
In whine men coming In to look at you. hold
ing their hand over their mouth for fear they
will catch the contagion How roughly they turn
you in bed. How loudly they talk. How you
long for the ministries of home. l knew one
such who went away from one OF the brightest
of homes for several weeks business absence at
the west Atelegram came at midnight that
he was on his deethbed, far away from home.
BY express train the wife and daughters went
westward, but they went too late. He feared
not to die. but he was In an agony to live until
he doctor to make him live a little while
longer, He said, II am willing to die, hut not
closed, and the heart stopped. The express
trains met in the midnight; wife and
daughters going westward, lifeless remains OF
was sad, pitlful, overwhelming spectacle /
When we are sick we want to be sick at home.
When the me comes for us to die, we
very humble, and the faces that look into ours
may be very plain, but who cares for that?
Loving hands to bathe the temples. Loving
voices to speak good cheer. Loving lips to
last dreadful war, men cast the cannon, men
fashioned the musketry, men cried to the
hosts: Forward, march r. men hurled their
ssemy ens ssaB SSes But G %omas as
scraped the lint; woman administered the
cordials; woman watched by the dying couch I;
woman wrote the last message to the home
circle, woman wept at the solitary burial at.
tended by herself and four men with spade.
We greeted the general home with brass
bands; and triumphal arches and wild huzzas
where save in the chronicles of heaven, Of
LIE @ i' icf Eh0 IN fs9e tSe swa%ps a1Ma Of ffmqRs thss
ChiSGasSSming; CadSG1 0f Annie Ross in the
ridge, who came 10 men who had been for
weeks with their wounds uudressed-some of
them frozen to the ground, and when she
waived 1t and filled the air with their "hur-
rahP'-. of Mrs. Hodge. who came from Chicago
with blankets and with pillows, until the men
missiop God bless the women at home,"
message; @ s SreiI H0"n my %ifs fe 'nS mot iass to
fret about me, but to meet me in heaven; tell
so well; tell her we shall meet again In the
good land; tell her TO bear my loss like the
Christian vile of a Christian. sjldier;" aud of
Mrs. Shelton into whose face the GONZALES
cent soldier looked AID said: "Your grapes and
cologne cured me-" Men did their work with
shot, and she'll. and carbine. aud howitzer;
slippers, and baudages, and warm. drinks, and
Scripture texts, and gentle strokings of the
hot temples. ana stories of that land where
they never S have any pain Men knelt down
did you tight?" Women knelt down over the
wounded and said: Where are you hurt?
What nice thing can make for you to eat?
men are sound asleep In our beds. there will be
a light in yonder loft: there will be groaniug
down that dark alley; there will be cries OF
distre IS in that cellar Men will Sleep and
women will watch.
Again. woman has superlative right to take
care of the. poor. There are hundreds and
thousands of them all over the land. There is
Kind OF work that men cannot do for the
poor. Here comes group of little barefoot
children to the door OF the Dorcas Society.
They need to be clothed and provided for.
how many yards It would take to make that
little girl a dress? Which of these masculine
hands could fit a hat to that little girls head
which Of the wise men would know how to tie
on that new pair Of shoes? Man sometimes
gives his charity In rough way, and II falls
like the fruit OF tree In the east, which fruit
comes down SO heavily that 1t breaks the skull
woman Rlides so softly into the house Of desti.
tuition, and finds out all the sorrows of the
place, ana puts so quietly the donation on the
she G On nSar 1Sa
her shawl she Will thrust out two wings and
go right M toward heaven from whence she
seems to have comedown. Oh! Christian young
and win the blessing Of Christ, go out among
the destitute. A loafof bread or bundle OF
socks may make homely load to carry. but
the Lord ALMIGHTY will give. His messenger
hosts a charge, saying: "Look after that
woman; Canopy her with your wings and
gpatld n init Inn,
ing, the little ones around the room
will whisper: "who is she9 Amt she beau
tiful 2" and If you will listen right sharply,
ieaiy roof, and rolling over the rotten stairs, S
the angel chant that shook bethlehem: "Glory
sooS to SOD li H the highest and on earth peace
70 ponp SaR you tell m why
hounis Of iniquity on a Christian Grand, never @
meets with any ipdignity? ! stood in. the
chapel of Helen Chalmers, the daughter Of the
doned part of the city OF Edinburgh and l
said to her as looked around upon the fearful
SURROUNDINGS Of that place: "Do you come
said. Can IL he possible you never meet with
en eIrand2 o Never" YER M she said, never" That
walking down the street, an armed police at
each corner. is not so well defended as
that Christian woman who goes forth on
gospel work into the haunts of iniquity,
red right srm of His wrath omnipotent, would
tear to pieces anyone who should offer indig-
nifty. He would smile him with llghtnlngs.
and drown hun with floods, and swallow him
with earthquakes, and dams him with eternal
indignations. ZONE one said ~ dislike very
those bad boys in the mission school. / am
afraid to have her instruct them" $50" said
another man, ~ am afraid, too" Said the
before they leave the place" 'Ah." said the
other man, ~ am not afraid of that. What /
am afraid OF l., that II any of those boys
should use bad word IN that presence, the
other boys would tear him to pieces and kill
him on the spot" That woman is the best
sheltered who is sheltered by the Lord God
where where God tells you TO 60.
II seems as If the Lord had ordained woman
for an especial work In the solicitation of char
ities Backed up by barrels in which there ia
no flour, and by stoves In which there is no
fire, and by wardrobes in which thera are no
clothes a woman Is irresistible; passing on her
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